On a Jet-Plane to London Tomorrow!

Hi loyal readers! (aka my friends under extreme duress)

I'm back after a travel hiatus of just under 30 days.

First of all, there's a glitch in my posterous account that's posting from my new concept facebads.posterous.com (the service is really awesome, a buddy of mine started it, and you should sign up at www.posterous.com) I will fix that shortly. I'm not converting this blog into a facebook ad critique circus... yet.

So I just checked in online at BA.com and got my travel companions back row seats in the premium economy section. Only 36 in our premium economy cabin versus 227 in the back two cabins of coach. Woo hoo! Apparently our back row seats will recline all the way... crossing my fingers. The gang and I scored RT tickets for around $500 which also includes a $50 one way upgrade to Premium Economy on my SFO to London leg. I went for it because of peer pressure, but secondarily because there's 2'' extra legroom 2-4-2 seat rows instead o 3-4-3 rows and electrical plugs in all the seats. I haven't flown BA since I was 10 years old and I don't have great memories (because Singapore Air just rocks the house) so I hope to make some good one's tomorrow!

Most of you know I'm headed to Europe for 2 months, but what you may not know is that I've only planned out 10 of those days, the other 50 are quite up in the air although plans are starting to coalesce around cities where I've got some college buddies and dare I say it, the middle east! More on that when things get finalized.

Our high school crew, which will be 6 people strong on Monday, will be in London for 4 days and then 5 of us will be moving on to Barcelona for another 4-5 days.

Please post any "must see" attractions in the comments section and a question I have for anyone reading this is: what's your take on the value of a EuroRail Pass? There are several types and I'm considering picking one up since I'll be in Europe for so long, but with 1 way flights relatively cheap (avg around $50) I'm wondering if it makes sense. Thanks for any input!

When you're down on your luck, good 'ol Forex always comes to the rescue!

Sure, I'm behind on my mortgage payments. I can barely feed my kids, and I wiped out my eldest son's college retirement while watching my own 401k lose over 50% of it's value... to top it off I just lost my job. On the bright side I get to spend lots of time on facebook "networking" with friends and other professionals and oh... what's this? a Forex ad!

One of the most exciting markets on earth??
Countless opportunities??

Count me in! Where do I sign up. What was I thinking? Of course, Forex is the answer to all my credit crunch woes!

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I have kids? And a mortgage?

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This seems like a Talking Heads song.

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Does my profile make me look Parent? (fat == parent)

I'm not old enough to have a baby, and def not old enough to have a 10 year old. I found a Digg link that suggests that at least 75% of facebook's 200M users are under the age of 25. Apparantly, Dr. Kapus and his marketing team of Indian Jones fanatics, has better demographic information. So now, for me, the insecure question of the month is:

Does my facebook profile make me look parent?

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Welcome - I'm creating a forum to share all the Crazy Ads that appear on Facebook.

Facebook recently celebrated it's 5th birthday, later this year I'll be celebrating my 5th year college reunion. Let's face it we're both old and need new hobbies, but this was something I couldn't resist. Don't get me wrong, I love FB. I've been using the site for the last 4 years and 10 months, today there are a 150M+ users, but I was probably using FB when there were <10k users. Seriously. When they first started placing ads on the right hand column, I remember thinking, geez these ads don't make any sense, they're boring and irrelevent. Soon Microsoft was in the fray, investing money in the company and inking a contract to siphon their own advertising on the site, but we all know about that. Now facebook ads are a little more relevant and much more creative. They are also some of the weirdest and most hilarious ads in town. I've set this site up so I can share all the funny ads I see with you and you'll be able to post funny ads as well (or send them to me and I'll moderate) I haven't decided yet... :)

Let the ad critiques begin!

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